|
|
|
History came to bathe in a public swimming pool in Kosice, Slovakia. The director creates an ingenious audiovisual collage of life in twentieth century Central Europe through several stories, which unfold from the time the pool was built in 1936 until 2002. Kerekes’ grandmother’s life story and...
Tags:
documentary slovakia kerekes |
|
Anderson Sa was a drug dealer in one of Rios\' most notorious favelas (slums) until he decided in the early 90\'s to channel his leadership and charisma to a constructive cause and was one of the fathers of the socio-musical Afro-Reggae movement. Ever since Sa and his friends started recruiting...
Tags:
brazil favela music drug reggae |
|
Copyright © 2006 Magnolia Pictures
A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that
requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes
of their religious movement.
...
Tags:
Evangelical Christians kids children young America |
|
Copyright © 2008 Elephant Eye Films
A sensitive and humorous vérité portrait Of Billy, a 15-year-old outsider growing up in small-town Maine. Billy appears, in many ways, like other teenage boys. He is into heavy metal and martial arts, is desperate to find a...
Tags:
america young youth love jennifer venditti |
|
Copyright © 2008 Fox Searchlight Pictures
Prepare to be entertained by the inspiring individuals of YOUNG@HEART,
a New England senior citizens chorus that has delighted audiences
worldwide with their covers of songs by everyone from The Clash to Coldplay.
As Stephen Walker’s...
Tags:
senior music chorus coldplay |
|
Copyright © 2008 Fox Searchlight Pictures
Prepare to be entertained by the inspiring individuals of YOUNG@HEART,
a New England senior citizens chorus that has delighted audiences
worldwide with their covers of songs by everyone from The Clash to Coldplay.
As Stephen Walker’s documentary...
Tags:
senior music chorus coldplay |
|
Copyright © 2008 Berkela Films
Bra Boys is a film about the cultural evolution of the inner-Sydney beachside suburb
of Maroubra and the social struggle of its youth – the tattooed and much
maligned surf community known as the Bra Boys. Central to the story is the...
Tags:
surf russel crowe australia youth social |
|
Kibbutz Eshbal in the Galilee, established in 1998 as an educational center, runs a boarding school for
adolescents who have been expelled from other educational institutions. At Eshbal, Baruch, Ora, Moshe and Yael,
first-generation immigrants from Ethiopia, are counseled by Yoav and Vickie,...
Tags:
kibbutz israel youth |
|
Algerian women remember their youth when they joined the
rebels during the Algerian war. Seeking the traces of the past
and telling the personal stories of the moudjahidates,
the director learns about her own roots but mostly
she brings her questions back to the condition of
being a...
Tags:
women algeria war moudjahidates Nassima Guessum |
|